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The Babylonian Jewry Museum

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The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
The Babylonian Jewry Museum
Phone:
+972 3-533-9278

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9am - 3pm
Tuesday9am - 7pm
Wednesday9am - 3pm
Thursday9am - 3pm
Friday10am - 1pm
SaturdayClosed


The history of the Jews in Iraq , is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c. 586 BC. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities. The Jewish community of Babylon included Ezra the scribe, whose return to Judea in the late 6th century BC is associated with significant changes in Jewish ritual observance and the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. The Talmud was compiled in Babylonia, identified with modern Iraq.From the Babylonian period to the rise of the Islamic caliphate, the Jewish community of Babylon thrived as the center of Jewish learning. The Mongol invasion and Islamic discrimination in the Middle Ages led to its decline. Under the Ottoman Empire, the Jews of Iraq fared better. The community established modern schools in the second half of the 19th century. Driven by persecution, which saw many of the leading Jewish families of Baghdad flee for the Indian subcontinent, and expanding trade with British colonies the Jews of Iraq established a trading diaspora in Asia known as the Baghdadi Jews.In the 20th century, Iraqi Jews played an important role in the early days of Iraq's independence. Between 1950–52, 120,000–130,000 of the Iraqi Jewish community reached Israel in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.The religious and cultural traditions of Iraqi Jews are still kept alive today in by strong communities now established in the State of Israel, especially in Or Yehuda, Givyatayim and Kiryat Gat. As of 2014 more than 229,900 Israelis were of Iraqi Jewish descent. Smaller communities upholding Iraqi Jewish traditions in the Jewish Diaspora exist in Britain, Australia, Singapore, Canada and the United States.
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